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Why does E=mc2? and why should we care?

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What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light-while exploding commonly held misconceptions-they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of re-creating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity

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530 COX W

Publisher

New York : Da Capo Press., 2008

Collation

255 p. ; 19,5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780306818769

Classification

500

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Space and time - mathematics
Relativity theory
Einstein field equation

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Brian Cox

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